Cynthia McKinney

Cynthia McKinney (born March 17, 1955 in Atlanta, Georgia) is a former liberalDemocrat United States Congresswoman. She represented Georgia's Fourth Congressional District from 1993 to 2003, and again from 2005 to 2007. Prior to being elected to Congress, she served as a Georgia state legislator (1988-1992).

McKinney was defeated in the 2002 Democratic primary after voting against the Iraq War. She was again defeated in the 2006 primary after creating a disturbance during which she struck a Capitol Hill police officer who stopped her after she tried to illegally bypass a metal detector.[1] Depsite this she still ran for the United StatesPresidency on the environmentalistGreen Party ticket in 2008 with her running mate, Rosa Clemente.[2]